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February 28, 2006

Sharpen Your Skills with Oakton Classes

Enhance your business, computer, and technical skills in courses offered by the Alliance for Lifelong Learning at Oakton Community College.

Brush Up Your Business Manners: It Pays (COM S61-01) demonstrates how to sharpen your professional image to enhance your success. One-week session meets 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., Saturday, April 1 at Oakton's Ray Hartstein Campus, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie. Course fee is $50.

Introduction to MS Word (DPR A83-03) teaches how to create, edit, print and enhance documents with different fonts, graphics, and formatting techniques. Five-week course meets 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Saturdays, starting April 1, at Oakton's Des Plaines campus, 1600 E. Golf Road. Course fee is $160.

Electric Cars: The Future Is Now (TEC S26-01) provides the pros and cons of owning an electric car. Two-week class meets 7 - 9:30 p.m., Tuesdays, starting April 4, at Niles West High School, 5701 Oakton St., Skokie. Course fee is $50.

Windows Applications (Windows XP) (DPR A23-04) covers basic Windows XP functions including managing files and customizing your desktop; creating, renaming, and deleting folders; and creating shortcuts to programs and files. Five-week course meets 1 - 4 p.m., Saturdays, starting April 8, at Oakton's Ray Hartstein Campus. Course fee is $160.

Access (DPR A71-02) shows the basics of this popular database program including how to customize forms and reports. Five-week class meets 12 - 3 p.m., Sundays, starting April 9, at Oakton's Des Plaines campus. Course fee is $160.

For a complete Alliance for Lifelong Learning class schedule, including registration and fee information, visit www.oakton.edu/cont_ed or call 847-982-9888, press 3.


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